Word: mason
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PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). George Mason, the Virginia dele gate to the 1787 Philadelphia convention who refused to endorse the Constitution because it failed to include a bill of rights...
Died. Noah Morgan Mason, 82, longtime Republican Congressman from Illinois' 15th district (Aurora), a deep-dyed conservative who opened his 13-term career in 1936 by denouncing F.D.R.'s court-packing plan, retired in 1962 promising to remain "a missionary to the heathen of Capitol Hill," in between slashing out at the New-Deal, lend-lease, farm-price supports, the U.N., civil rights and foreign aid, while serving on the House committees on Un-American Activities, and Ways and Means; in Joliet...
...read bocks has a special prize. $1760 is awarded annually to a student who has taken a curse in English and who submits "the most understanding essay on the true spirit of book collecting." Another prize requiring more talent than work is the Austin B. Mason Prize for outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics. The Clemans Herschel Prize in restricted to students enrolled in courses in practical hydraulics, but such courses are easier passed than found at Harvard...
...statesmen, politicians, and poets seldom lead their commencement processions. Most Harvard prize winners grow up to be professors, many of them professors at Harvard. John H. Finley, Jr. '25 won $250 for a Bowdoin essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded...
Originated by Edward Mason, Lamont University Professor, the project was designed to give professors a "ringside seat" to economic development in emerging nations. Several members of the Economics Department, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, John R. Meyer, professor of Economics, and Robert Dorfman, professor of Economics, have participated in the project...